President Donald Trump, who has recently urged states on Twitter to “liberate” following stay-at-home orders, applauded on Thursday the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned the coronavirus safety measures put in place by Governor Tony Evers. “Its Democrat Governor was forced by the courts to let the State Open,” he wrote. “The people want to get on with their lives. The place is bustling!”

The 4-3 ruling issued by the majority-conservative court—which followed Republican legislators suing the Evers administration in April—found that “in the case of a pandemic that lasts month after month, the governor cannot rely on emergency powers indefinitely.” As the Washington Postreports, the decision was met with celebration, as throngs of maskless Wisconsites partied in bars across the state on Wednesday evening. One establishment, Nick’s in Platteville, shared a photo of crowded bar captioned, “45 minutes after the bars open in Wisconsin.”

Evers appeared Wednesday night on MSNBC to discuss the ruling, telling MSNBC’s Ali Velshi that the four members of the court made a decision “that was not based on statute, precedents, or the facts, unfortunately” and “has thrown our state into chaos” by potentially undoing months of work to combat the coronavirus crisis. “It’s a sad occasion for the state. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am. The people of Wisconsin have worked so hard to get to where we’re at,” Evers said, citing a recent Marquette University poll that found 69% of people support his administration's efforts around the issue.

“We’re like the Wild West,” Evers told Velshi when asked what happens next for Wisconsin. “There are no restrictions at all across the state of Wisconsin. … There is nothing that’s compelling people to do anything other than having chaos here,” the governor said, fearing the increase in cases and deaths that the ruling will cause. The Post notes Wisconsin to be in a situation unlike any other state in the country, with a “hodgepodge” of cities and counties issuing or extending their own stay-at-home orders. “Different counties are saying, ‘Bring it on.’ We have other counties saying, ‘No, we don’t want this to happen,’” Evers said. “So suddenly it’s a 72-county affair, which is going to be very confusing to people in the state."